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LA Fest Opens in the Garden
Zach Braff's directorial debut to open 10th annual Fest, with The Clearing
serving as the closing night feature.
Friday, May 7, 2004
By Mark Umbach
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Scrubs star Zach Braff's directorial debut and Sundance entry Garden
State will open the 10th annual Los Angeles Film Festival on June 17, with
the Robert Redford starrer The Clearing selected to close the festival
on June 26. In addition, Richard Linklater's Before Sunset has been chosen
as the Festival's centerpiece premiere by the selection committee led by festival
director Richard Raddon and director of programming Rachel Rosen.
Garden State, which stars Braff, Ian Holm, Method Man, Natalie Portman
and Peter Sarsgaard, centers on a young man who returns home for his mother's
funeral after having been estranged from his family for many years. Once back,
he reunites with old acquaintances that help him find himself. The pic premiered
at Sundance and was snatched up for distribution by Fox Searchlight and Miramax
Films. Searchlight will bow the film domestically on July 30.
The Redford starring The Clearing, directed Pieter Jan Brugge, is the
story of a powerful executive, who is kidnapped, and his wife, who must deliver
the ransom. Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe also star in the film, which will
be released by Fox Searchlight on July 2.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star in Before Sunset, Linklater's sequel
to Before Sunrise. Story concerns Jesse and Celine, who had met nine
years earlier and once again encounter one another while Jesse is on the French
leg of his book tour. Warner Independent Pictures will debut the film domestically
on July 2.
This year 195 films including 83 features from 31 countries around the world
will screen at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The Fest received over 2,800 submissions
from all over the globe. In addition to the film slate, helmer Mira Nair will
oversee the guest director sidebar.
A complete Fest line up follows:
OPENING FILM:
Garden State (Zach Braff)
CENTERPIECE PREMIERE:
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
CLOSING FILM:
The Clearing (Robert Redford)
NARRATIVE COMPETITION:
After the Apocalypse (Yasuaki Nakajima)
Bad Meat (Scott Dikkers)
Fighting Tommy Riley (Eddie O'Flaherty) (World Premiere)
Invisible Light (Gina Kim)
Men Without Jobs (Mad Matthewz)
Pizza (Mark Christopher) (World Premiere)
Robbing Peter (Mario F. de la Vega) (World Premiere)
Sexual Life (Ken Kwapis) (World Premiere)
Unknown Soldier (Ferenc Toth)
Wilderness Survival for Girls (Eli Despres and Kim Roberts) (World Premiere)
| DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION:
A Hard Straight (Goro Toshima)
Another Road Home (Danae Elon)
Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating (Chris Kenneally
and Danielle Franco)
Imelda (Ramona S. Diaz)
Monster Road (Brett Ingram)
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America (Kelly Duane)
Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (Sandra Dickson and Churchill
Roberts) (World Premiere)
Rock School (Don Argott)
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
The Last of the First (Anja Baron)
Up For Grabs (Michael Wranovics)
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INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE
Al'l¨¨ssi . . . An African Actress (Niger) (U.S. Premiere)
As Life Goes By (France) (North American Premiere)
A Taste of Murder (France)
A Thousand Months (Morocco/France/Belgium)
B-Happy (Chile)
Dame La Mano (Netherlands)
Free Radicals (Austria)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Taiwan)
Michael Blanco (Belgium/France/USA) (World Premiere)
Nina (Brazil) (North American Premiere)
Red Lights (France)
Roads to Koktebel (Russia)
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (England)
South of the Clouds (China)
The Center (Germany) (U.S. Premiere)
The Island (Italy)
The Magic Gloves (Argentina)
Untold Scandal (South Korea)
Vibrator (Japan)
XV in Zaachila (Mexico)
EVENT SCREENING:
Man with a Movie Camera with live music by Oranger
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FAMILY DAY SCREENINGS:
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T - Screening and Read-Along, preceded by a
read-along of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.
Two Brothers (Universal Pictures)
Yellow Submarine
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
Another State of Mind
Cowards Bend the Knee
Dear Frankie
DIG!
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Hero
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Intimate Strangers
La otra
Maria Full of Grace
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Overnight
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
We Don't Live Here Anymore
Woman Thou Art Loosed
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
FREE SCREENINGS:
Krush Groove
Chisholm '72 - Unbought & Unbossed
The Hunting of the President
High Tension (Lions Gate)
Ju-On: The Grudge (Lions Gate)
Mojave (World Premiere).
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